{"id":5520,"date":"2015-02-17T13:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/?p=5520"},"modified":"2015-02-17T02:27:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T06:27:02","slug":"book-review-twenty-five-buildings-every-architect-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2015\/02\/17\/book-review-twenty-five-buildings-every-architect-understand\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review – Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Five years after the publication of his well-received book Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand<\/em>, Simon Unwin and Routledge kicked off 2015 with the publication of a Second Edition. Explicitly outlining the changes within, the expansion and revision of the original prompted a renaming of the book to\u00a0Twenty-Five<\/span> Buildings Every Architect Should Understand<\/em> (underline added).<\/p>\n

Given the strength of the First Edition – reviewed previously\u00a0on Spacing Vancouver here<\/a> \u00a0– the news edition has stayed true to the original intentions. As outlined in the Introduction<\/em> to this edition, Unwin reiterates his desire to use his case studies to explore the possibilities and power inherent to architecture, as well as test the analytical methods offered in his previous book Analysing Architecture<\/em><\/a>. Furthermore, he states:<\/p>\n

The original twenty buildings were selected to\u2026explore a range of relationships between architecture and person. I have applied these criteria again in selecting five more buildings to analyse.<\/em><\/p>\n

As with the past book, the new case studies are from around the world, including one from India (Ramesh House), Germany (Mohrmann House) and Brazil (Bardi House). The following is a complete list of houses included:<\/p>\n